Chew XXX: A Porn Parody?

You find yourself in all sorts of conversations at San Diego Comic Con. Last night I was introduced by Tony Lee to adult movie actor Evan Stone and the posse of Exxxquisite Films, one of the companies currently enjoying success creating “porn parody” versions of popular comic books-turned-movies-and-TV-shows.

I’m in two minds about such productions. While they are generally not my cup of tea, they are popular on Bleeding Cool and I do admire both the attention to detail and fan service that these films provide. Yo the extent that one can have a very satisfactory experience watching the films with the sex scenes skipped – and they give you an option to do that in the menu as well. They are, at their core, delivery mechanisms for masturbatory experiences in an industry can both exploit and abuse both performer and viewer, but the layers and the wrapping can be so fascinating that if you have problems with such material, and I do, it’s oh so easy to overlook them. And I do. And last night in the Hyatt hotel, I most definitely did.

Because, knowing Bleeding Cool. they started to ask me where they should look, after the movie/TV comics material dries up. There are obvious choices of course, plundering the line of Marvel and DC superheroes, but what then? Could they find more exotic fare, and a more obsessed fanbase?

So I gave them some names. There were some obvious ones, the Danger Girl, the Anna Mercury, the Lady Death. They already considering The Walking Dead XXX, because of the TV series, so I gave them what many are expecting to be the next Walking Dead. Chew, by John Layman and Rob Guillory. Then Morning Glories by Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma. Fables from Bill Willingham and Mark Buckingham. I mention Hack/Slash by Tim Seeley. Even Nonplayer by Nate Simpson. I think at one point I even mentioned Crossed - no I don’t know what I was thinking.

And then, for my sins, I mentioned Tamara Drewe by Posy Simmons. The stunning graphic novel with themes from Far From A Madding Crowd, in which a young woman returns to her village after having minor plastic surgery and a major change of personality, as the village she left behind now reacts to her in a very different way, often carnally. Oh and I mentioned it had also been a movie. They could quite easily create much of that, shot for shot, but let the camera continue rolling in certain scenes.

Notes were taken, hands were shaken, cards were exchanged.,

It was only in the elevator back into my role, that I looked deep into my soul and realised what I’d done.

Chew XXX? Tamara Drewe XXX?

I just don’t know why I never mentioned Lost Girls.